“Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.”
“What truth?”
“There is no spoon.”
“There is no spoon?”
“Then you’ll see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
Most people think this famous scene from The Matrix is just a standard non-dual teaching. They think it means: “The physical world is an illusion. It’s all in your mind. Transcend the form. Deny the spoon.”
But I see it a little differently.
Think about what a spoon actually is. It’s an inevitability. Every single civilization that has ever existed on this planet created a spoon. It is a universal constant of manifestation. When consciousness takes physical form, the spoon must appear. It is the necessary tool through which we nourish ourselves.
So when Spoon Boy says, “There is no spoon,” he isn’t telling Neo the spoon is fake. He’s telling Neo: There is no spoon separate from you. You ARE the spoon.
And what does that signify?
It signifies the Iself.
The Contraction path of spirituality tells you that the spoon (your individuality, your Iself, your form) is an illusion that you need to delete, transcend, or annihilate.
The Expansion path tells you the spoon is an inevitable, beautiful, functional tool of consciousness.
You don’t transcend the spoon. You realize you are the spoon, the hand holding it, the mouth it feeds, the hunger that necessitated it, and the Amness that is the entire meal.
Stop trying to bend the illusion.
Embrace the inevitability of the Iself.
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